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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ultimately glorious in life and in celebrations of love and beauty?
(a) Time
(b) Dedication
(c) Peace
(d) Journey

2. What is the spiritual city, and thus center for those who practice the Muslim faith?
(a) Babylon
(b) Mecca
(c) Their city of birth
(d) The city of their mosque

3. Whose temptation and transcendence does Campbell discuss in this section?
(a) Common man
(b) Jesus
(c) Buddha
(d) David

4. What is NOT a symbol of this central item, as referenced in #25 and #26?
(a) Whale
(b) Mountain
(c) Tree
(d) Fountain

5. What does the Hero have to do when he returns from his journey?
(a) He doesn't return
(b) Nothing
(c) Pray
(d) Share his experience

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for experiences, ideas, or beliefs that differ in species from individual to individual and culture to culture, but which in their broadest outlines manifest basic human truths?

2. _________ thus asserts that all reality emerges from a transcendent, universal, sub-conscious and ultimately unknowable truth.

3. What might the Hero be known as?

4. The Native American priest calls this central area the absolute ________ of the land beneath the sky.

5. In spite of humanity's fondness for happy endings, [life] has only one ending - what is it?

(see the answer key)

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